Portal To Report Law Enforcement Misconduct (12/04)

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. KFI AM-640, you're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Heart Radio app. KFI AM-640, live everywhere on the I-Heart Radio app. We are on every day from 1 until 4, and then after 4 o'clock, John Cobalt show On Demand on the I-Heart app. Well, Rob Bonta. who recently had to spend a half million dollars on lawyers because he is somehow connected to a case in Oakland involving the recalled mayor who's being accused of accepting bribes. I don't know what his role was, but he needed a half million dollars in campaign money to spend it on lawyers. He is also announcing a online platform for you to report illegal actions by ICE agents. What he should be doing is he should have a task force investigating Ricardo Lara. Alex Stone is going to tell us what this is about. Alex. Is this guaranteed human, John? Hello. Human John. I am human John. You're human Alex. That's right. Yeah, so California in general has been trying to figure out how to rein in what you might call the unorthodox way that the federal agents have been carrying out the immigration operations. And quite honestly, among local police here, there has been displeasure the tactics that the feds use, that their lack of organization, their lack of safety procedures that law enforcement are trained to do when they're carrying out. a raid or an arrest, non-traditional ways of doing it, not wearing uniforms, but it is what the feds are doing. And, you know, there's that recently passed law in California. Now, L.A. County is trying to do the same thing to ban masks on federal agents and clothing that lacks identifiable information or even what agency they're with. And the Trump administration is saying, you can't do that, that we are federal agents. State can't tell us what to do. And now California Attorney General Rob... Rob Bonta announcing this. Today we're launching an online portal where members of the public can report potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents operating in our state. So until this point, there's really been no recourse for somebody who wants to make a complaint against a federal agent carrying out immigration enforcement because not surprisingly, the feds don't want to hear it. And you probably don't even know who you're going to complain to because most aren't wearing any identifiable. real identifiable, a serial number or a name, and sometimes even what agency they are. But there have been things, as they've been doing the operations, like use of force and crowd control and rounding up U.S. citizens that people have complained about. And California says that the online portal is going to allow people to file complaints with the California Department of Justice, upload photos and videos, and if warranted, the state will then investigate and take legal action against the federal agents or the agencies. definitely enforce the law in a lawful manner. But they must follow the Constitution, and they're not above accountability. Now, John, in reality, other than maybe just turning into more lawsuits against Trump administration, and Rob Bonta files one about every day, it's a nonstop stream of lawsuits against Trump administration. It's not clear what this actually means. It seems unlikely that California is going to build a case against federal agents.

then send local or state law enforcement in to go and arrest federal agents. They're not going to do that. Local and state police aren't going to go, I mean, unless it's something totally egregious, that they are not going to go and put federal agents into cuffs. But more than anything, could be lawsuits against the agents, but the AG sent. When Californians witness conduct, that looks unlawful, excessive force, unnecessary detentions, unconstitutional searches. They deserve a place to be. a place where their information is taken seriously This portal helps us do just that. Again, maybe for a lawsuit. But the administration is responding saying California should be more concerned with, quote, dangerous criminal illegal aliens, end quote. And Bella Salee, the U.S. Attorney here, acting U.S. Attorney in L.A., saying he too has an online portal, but it's to report corrupt California politicians. Yeah. How about a portal for all the bribes that everybody in the Gavin Newsom administration has been taking for the last seven years? So he flipped it around and said, use my portal, if you want to make complaints against the... the California leadership. But the state is saying now if you feel like that you have been wronged by a federal agent, which, you know, there are a lot of people who have been out in the streets as things have gone down and they have concerns about this or that they now have a place where they can go and upload their videos and their photos and say, California, look into this and then who knows what's going to happen after that. You know, going back to the, you have to wear a mask law, you have to. Or not wear a mask, yeah. But we've had plain. enclosed police officers and undercover agents forever. Everybody in law enforcement on every level has not had to be fully in uniform and fully identifiable. You've always had people working blending in. That's how you catch bad guys. Yeah. Now, law enforcement would say that is when they're in a very specified, you know, like a drug operation or something like that. And not typically when they are in a more general sense of in a protest. I mean, you'll see LAPD has the last name of the officer emblazoned on the back of their helmet and on their chest and badge numbers and everything else. Sheriff's Department, the same. thing that typically when it's in a more general law enforcement, you're identifying that these are real, that these are not people, impostors, impersonating a police officer, that they want to make it clear. But yeah, I mean, there always have been undercover officers. But it's like being pulled over on the freeway by an unmarked car. Typically, that doesn't go on. In fact, in the state of California, the reason why, I'm not going to get too dorky here with you right now, but if it is a... A vehicle that is used primarily for traffic enforcement, under the law has to be marked. That is why you now see the CHP has these new minimally marked Dodge Durangoes, I think they're Durangoes, that they're driving where they're great. I've seen them in action, where those who like to weave in and out of traffic or go speeding by, they never see these things coming because they look like family SUV, but they have a ghosted image of the scene.

So I'd say minimal compliance with the law. But in real life, you wouldn't notice them. They are complying with the law that they are marked, even though they are, it's a ghosted in image. It's minimally marked. But yeah, so at least the state law is that if it's somebody who, unless it's an emergency, you know, you see the LAPD captains and whatnot in their, their chargers as they go by, their gray chargers on the freeway. But typically they're not pulling people over. So normally if it is somebody who's having. regular interaction with the public, they are usually in uniform and in a marked vehicle. But the federal agents are doing something totally different in the, now the Trump administration suing against the state law about no masks and wearing identifiable uniforms. The Trump administration is saying, what are you going to do about it? We are federal agents that the state of California doesn't dictate what federal agents do, and that's going to be for the courts to figure out. When they are operating in California, does California law over law enforcement actions apply at all to federal agents who are acting as law enforcement in the state of California? The ding bets on the L.A. County Supervisors Board. They just passed one of these laws. Oh, you know, we're not going to allow federal agents who have mastered. Yeah, they just like the same thing that California is doing. What are you going to do about it? But that's the thing. Has there been a single arrest in the whole nation of a federal agent? No. So, and that's really a thing. I was talking to senior law enforcement leadership a couple weeks ago about this. And they were saying, we're not going to go on arrest federal agents. Yeah, they've got to work with them. The FBI works with. The Sheriff's Department and the LAPD and Burbank Police and Newport Beach Park, they work together all the time. They don't want to create a relationship where they're coming after each other. And it's law enforcement agency to law enforcement agency, unless again, unless it's like child molestation or embezzling or something that is very clearly criminal, they're not going to go and arrest essentially one of their own. But there is displeasure among a lot of law enforcement of the way, as I was saying, of the way that federal... agents are carrying these out because they are not doing it in a traditional and safe way, typically, just running out of trucks and chasing people through Home Depot parking lots is not in the manual for most law enforcement. And so a lot of local law enforcement is saying they don't like how they're boxing, the feds are boxing people in, and that's leading to shootings and everything's. It's not a real traditional way of doing it, but it is the way the feds are doing it. All right, Alex, very good. Thank you for coming on. You got it. Thanks, John. Alex Stone, ABC News on Rob Bonta, once again, does pompoon preening and pretending that he can control what federal ICE agents do? Rob Bonta has helped harbor and protect hundreds and hundreds of violent, illegal alien criminals. Rapists, murderers, child molesters, does nothing about that. He makes sure that all the sanctuary laws are enforced. A total buffoon, a complete phony. And I'm dying to know what his role is in that Oakland bribery scandal, since he's the one who admitted paying a half million dollars in lawyers. There's something dirty going on there. We come back. Holly Bari Weiss.

She, there's this speaking event in New York City. The New York Times has something called Deal Book. I think it's a section of their website. And they have like a speaker series and they had many of them on stage two days ago, including Gavin Newsom and Holly Bari Weiss, the actress who went off on Gavin Newsom over vetoing a menopause bill. We'll play her clip and talk about this when we come back. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. John Cobalt with you. If you want to watch our YouTube segments, you can subscribe and see all of them. YouTube.com slash at John Cobalt Show. YouTube.com slash at John Cobalt Show. That's where you subscribe. And you could watch our YouTube video segments. Longer. Just spend the whole day. All right. At first I saw this and I thought this was just a really weird story. So the New York Times has the section on their website and in their newspaper called Deal Book. And every year they have a speaking event. And Gavin Newsom was there this year. And they have all kinds of business and political luminaries and they sit on stage and there's some New York Times hack that tosses softball questions. Well, among the people who came out on stage was Holly Bari Weiss, the actress. And Holly Bari Weiss really pissed at Gavin Newsom. There's a health care bill which would fund menopause care for women. And Gavin Newsom vetoed it. Basically, it would cost too much money. which is curious since he's spending $13 billion on illegal alien health care. Well, Holly Bari Weiss, let it rip. But the opposite of that, back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one but two years in a row. But that's okay, because he's not going to be governor forever. And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either. Just saying, I need every woman in this country to fight with me. But the truth is, the fight isn't just for us women. We need men too. We need all of the leaders. Every single one of you in this room, this fight needs you. Now, this is a bill that would spend money on menopause care, research and education about women's health. And it's two years in a row. He's vetoed it.

I hadn't heard about this, but I mean, menopause is a serious issue for women. And every woman goes through it at one point or another. And, you know, if Gavin Newsom is given away 13 billion to illegal aliens, he should have a few dollars to deal with with the menopause research. She says at this stage in my life, I have zero Fs left to give. I imagine it's not just a menopause bill she's unhappy with Gavin Newsom about just sounded like it and She also went off about the pressure women are under Our culture thinks that at 59 years old, I am past my prime, that women up my age start to become invisible in Hollywood, the workplace, on social media. Women are pressured to stay forever 35. We're complimented if we seem to be aging backwards or defying gravity, as if that's even possible. Yes? Yes. And if we somehow manage to look younger than our years, it's suggested that's the gold standard that our worth should be measured by. We've encouraged to contort our bodies and our faces in truly extreme ways to chase this elusive phantom of youth. That's true. You know, there's a lot of facial contortions going on. Yes. And I agree that women are under, especially in California, Los Angeles, under that pressure. And I'm seeing a lot, still, a lot of weird faces, which I don't think are better than slightly aging faces. No, I agree. But I think women are desperate. Some women, I should say, are desperate. So they do stuff. And sometimes when they're doing the facelifts, it doesn't work out the way they were hoping. I would be terrified. If you had a facelift? Yeah. Lying under anesthesia and having some guy start slicing up my face and pulling and jerking, whatever the hell they do. I don't even understand how it works. Yeah. I don't know what they do. Well, if your face sags, so they have to pull it up. Right? So they have to probably get rid of some skin and sew it up. I mean, I haven't had a facelift, clearly. Well, you don't need that. I was going to say, you're one of those people who's aging backwards. Defying gravity. You defied gravity. There's some mystery secret there. I don't know what. And you don't mind when people compliment you like that. I love to be complimented, to be honest. I do. But I do understand that my days are numbered. Well, all our days are numbered. I mean, in the looks department. I see. Well, you've got a few days left. A few days? Yeah. Thanks, John. Helps being on the radio, too. Yeah, it does. Yeah, pressure's off. Except all the social media stuff that we have to do.

Yeah, it's optional. It's true. Maybe one day I'm just not going to be on social media. And then you'll know why because I look horrible. You'll become one of those women whose social media picture is a cat. Exactly. Or dog. Or dog, yeah. I had to go through an approval process with Deborah for the posthathon post. Well, yes. Oh, really? Of course. I don't want him to just post. I mean, he shows me a picture of me scowling. He's like, I assume you don't want me to post this. I said, you're right. I don't. Well, I was double-checking. But that was very sweet of you. Thank you, Eric. So there's no scowling photos? Oh, I don't want a scowling photo of me on social media. I see a lot of scowling all afternoon on the screen here. I'm looking a lot of scowling. I want the world to see what I see. No. We got more coming up. You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM 640. Coming up after 3 o'clock, we're going to have Nick Gerda on. He's a journalist. He writes for laist.com, and he has had a number of stories about all the stolen money in the homeless industry here in Los Angeles in Southern California. This is our version of what's going on in Minneapolis with the Somalians and all the welfare money that they run through these fake nonprofits up there. Well, our version of it is billions of dollars being stolen and run through various homeless housing companies. Nick Gurda is going to tell the latest on a number of dirty deals. Now, oh, by the way, you had to listen to the podcast, KFIam640.com. No, where do you get the podcast? The Iheart media app, right. Sorry. John Cobalt show on demand. I have my promos all confused because today's podcast, listen to the one o'clock hour because Ricardo Lara is back in the news. LA Times did an extensive investigation into all his trips. and all the money he's taken from insurance companies and the insurance industry and all the breaks that he gave the insurance industry. And that's why the insurance is so expensive or your insurance has been cut off or you've been thrown into the fare plan. And he traveled 32 trips to 23 countries and we paid for a lot of it. And the insurance industry paid for the rest. And he doesn't even have receipts for two-thirds of it. So you got to listen to the one o'clock hour on the podcast if you missed it. All right, let's go to Carl DeMaio, and he's the Republican Assemblyman down from San Diego. Reform California is his organization, and he is in the process of getting on the ballot a proposition that would require voter ID for elections. Carl, how are you? We're working hard and time is running out. So every moment is important. We're on our statewide bus tour. I'm actually up in the Northern California area today. We were in the Bay Area all this week. Yes, we went to the Bill Gates of hell. We didn't go inside hell, but we kind of tiptoed around it. But we're doing our final events this week next week and the following week.

for the turn-in of petitions with signatures to put the California Voter ID initiative on the ballot. This week we've announced 750,000 signatures have been collected. We need a million. And I'm asking all of the volunteers to submit their signatures no later than December 31st. Do as many signature collections as you can in the next four weeks. Join me at one of our events. We have a number of them coming up in Southern California. This weekend we're going to be in Palm Springs, Corona, Ventura, Santa Clarita, Victorville. Then we're going to be back in Huntington Beach and Laguna Nigel, Your Belinda, and all throughout San Diego County. So you can get all the information at Voter ID Initiative.com. voter ID Initiative.com. That's where all the events are posted, bring friends. And also, if you just simply want to sign the petition, go to voter IDinitiative.com, voter ID initiative.com. You can download, print, sign, and mail it back in before the deadline on December 31st. And it's a simple proposition. This should require everybody who wants to vote to show their ID before they do vote. That's right. But it also does something even more powerful. It cleanses our voter rolls. It requires an audit of each county's voter role every two years before an election to make sure that only eligible people are on. And it also requires citizenship verification. And this has been a problem where illegal immigrants have gotten driver's licenses and the DMV has done motor voter, automatically registering people to vote. And we know that that has been a big problem of undermining trust and confidence. So we really need people to understand that auditing voter roles and citizenship verification are also part of this initiative, in addition to just the standard voter ID requirement that everyone knows about. How would it affect mail-in voting? You know, I don't particularly like mail-in ballots, but California voters do. So we do not affect mail-in ballots, except you still have to show your identity by having the last four digits of your ID and ballot. Okay. Is that the way it is now? Because I never voted by mail. No, the way it is now is you just simply do a little bit of scratching to approximate your signature. And the signature reviews, John, are actually not being done properly. There's a shock. It basically is the Wild West. When you switch to the four digits, the last four digits of a government ID, it's like the four digits can on a bank card. It's very secure. And we allow voters to decide what government ID they want to use. They also can request a voter card so that there's no barrier to voting in California. We give people a free voter card if they would like one.

But you can use your driver's license, passport, social security card if you'd like. But it's a very common sense reform measure. And that's why the polling shows, John, that when we get this on the ballot, it's going to pass. 68% of Californians support voter ID. 79% support the audits and the citizenship verification. Overall support is in the mid-70s. And even 53% of California Democrats support the initiative. But the only people who don't support it. the LA Times editorial board and Sacramento politicians. Well, the good news is I think that editorial board got disbanded, didn't it? Oh, who knows? They actually need to be arrested and held accountable for their culpability and the crimes that have been perpetrated on the poor people of Los Angeles. Oh, my God. All right, voter ID. That's the referendum you're getting on the ballot and need a million signatures. We've got 750,000, and we've got to get everything done by December 31st. And you heard Carl talk about all the towns that they're touring through. Please go to the website. Again, Carl, list a website so everyone can get the information. Hey, go to Voter IDinitiative.com, Voter IDinitiative.com, or just go to Reform, California.org and all the information's there as well. All right, Carl, great work. Thank you. We'll talk again soon. Thank you. Carl DeMaio. Seems to be a one-man band when it comes to resistance to the oppressive one-party rule that we're all living under. But, yeah, voter ID would be a big deal here in California. God knows what goes. I don't trust it. I don't trust voter voter. I don't trust mail-in ballots. I don't trust certainly the ballot harvesting nonsense. I think that's got a lot to do with the big margins that the one party has in this state. They have really, this place really is rigged. All right, when we come back, we got a clip to play for you of Ilhan Omar. She is that Somalian congresswoman out of Minnesota. She's part of the squad. She's, uh, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's friend. And she's way left anarchist, hates America, hates capitalism. This is one of the things I talked about yesterday is when you get a critical mass of people who come from a country that doesn't have a government and they're not emotionally invested in our way of life. Eventually, they're going to end up with some political power and try to undermine. our system. Ilhan Omar is a great example of that. And she has got a lot of connections to this huge billion dollar scandal, this fraud scandal in Minnesota. And we're going to play a clip. She was on with Jake Tapper. And the New York Post did a story on all her connections. Because to me, there's something that really stinks here as well. She must have known what's been going on.

You're listening to John Cobalt on demand from KFI AM-640. KFI AM-640. More stimulating talk radio, John Cobelt. Moist Line is 877-7-7-moist 86. We have vacancies for tomorrow. 877-66 Moist 86, 877-66-66-4-7886, or usually talkback feature on the I-Heart radio app. Ilhan Omar is that Somalian congresswoman. You've probably seen him. What do you, it's seen her? What do you call what she has on her head? I don't want to misidentify it. I thought maybe, Debra, would you know what it's called? A he job? Is it a he job? No, no. It's not a turban. It's kind of like a turban, I guess. Yeah, that's what it looks like. I don't know what it is. But, you know, she's very identifiable. And she's part of the squad. And she's the one supposedly, she married a brother in order to get him. admission into the United States. And 80,000, 80,000 Somalians moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in general. And so Ilhan Omar became the congresswoman to represent them. And there's a billion dollars now that's been stolen by about 80 people in the Somalian community. Huge backlash. Tim Walz, the governor, was told about it repeatedly. But he and other politicians and bureaucrats were afraid to be called racist. And, you know, this is like Ricardo Lara stealing all the money here. spending it on his on his vacations. If you accuse him of something, he'll say you're homophobic because, you know, he's the first gay insurance commissioner. And he spends a lot of the tax money and insurance company money going to gay politician conferences around the world. Okay, so he's bulletproof. He thinks so. And then Ilhan Omar and these Somalians who were ripping off the Minnesota taxpayer, they figure, well, We'll just call them racist. I mean, they actually found memos. They found memos where some of these criminals were discussing what to do if you're confronted. And you just scream racism, and everybody will go run away and hide. And that's how Tim Walfts governed Minnesota. He let them loot the place because he didn't want to be called racist, or he believes it is racist. I don't know. But he is... He's just a really sad clown. But what did Ilhan Omar know? You know, the Somalian community, they organize themselves according to clans, which happens in a number of nations. And you're either in the clan or you're not. And they're very close-knit. And you talk about not being inclusive. They don't want outsiders getting into their business. And I'm going to lay out the case against Ilhan Omar. It seems impossible that she didn't know that a lot of this theft was going on. And this was a welfare stamp. That's what it was. It was for nutritional benefits. It's for like autism programs. It was a lot of fraud. And Jake Tapper.

And Jake Tapper at the time of the interview should have known all this and bore in on her. I mean, she knew one of the owners convicted, one of her staffers convicted. She held her victory party when she was elected to Congress back in 2018 at one of the restaurants that was intimately involved in the fraud. Omar even introduced the bill. that led to $250 million in fraud. And according to Bill Glon, a policy fellow with the center of the American experiment, that's based in Minnesota, Omar knew who these people were. People she personally knew were making tens of millions of dollars a year in this program. That's what he told the post. She'd been inside this safari restaurant on numerous occasions and couldn't put two and two together. Either she's terminally naive or she knew and she didn't care. $250 million of the $1 billion was handed out by the Minnesota government to provide meals to school children. Instead, it was stolen by corrupt business owners, including Salim Ahmed Saeed, co-owner of the Safari restaurant where Omar held her 2018 Congressional Victory Party. Said found guilty in August stealing 12 million. You know what he claimed he did? That he served four million phantom meals to children during the pandemic. Four million kids, he claimed to feed. It was zero. He stole all the money. What did he spend it on? Two million dollars on a Minneapolis mansion. And he had a huge shopping habit, thousands of dollars every month at Nordstrom's. You have to get involved with one of these nonprofit scams. I really do. I'm feeling very left out. You know, that's where you get the money you need. There was a lot, most of the money was funneled through a corrupt nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. It allowed nonprofits and for-profit businesses to be reimbursed with tax money for feeding kids. There was hardly any oversight. And as the scam was going on in 2020, Omar appeared on video at the safari restaurant to praise the program. And one more thing, Somalia doesn't have a government, not a functioning government. And David Gaetner, David Gaither is a former Minnesota legislature who... runs an adult education center for Somali immigrants. So he knows what's going on. He goes, when you raise your hand and call all this into question, you get handed the racism card. You're shamed and put into a corner, especially if you're some mid-level bureaucrat. You're told to take some remedial training and look the other way. The Somali community, said Gaither, has a distrust of norms in our society.

like Minnesota Nice. They're conditioned to ripping off the government because that's what goes on in Somalia. And that is a problem with a lot, when you have too much of a population coming from one country that only knows corruption, what's going to happen? You're going to get this brand of corruption infiltrating our system. And we have enough of our own guys who are corrupt. All right, we come back. We are going to talk. This is important. This is our big nonprofit scandal, the homeless industry. Nick Gurda, LAIS.com. He's had a series of articles uncovering all these scam deals involving the homeless housing industry. That is next. You'll want to hear it. Deborah Mark live in the KFI, 24-hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on KFI AM 640 from 1 to 4 p.m. every Monday through Friday. And, of course, anytime on demand on the IHeart Radio app.